What do your ESP metrics really tell you about your deliverability?

What do your ESP metrics really tell you about your deliverability?

by Zack Aab Comment Closed
Knowing the deliverability of your email campaigns is essential to understand how well it's doing. It also can be one of the hardest metrics to nail down. You might think you know your deliverability because you can look at the dashboard in your email service platform and see that 99% of your emails got delivered. That's your delivery rate – the percentage of emails that were received successfully by an email server or ISP.  However, that's not the same as your deliverability. Deliverability measures how successfully your email messages reach your subscribers' inboxes instead of being routed to their spam folders or getting blocked outright by an ISP's filters. That's an important difference because, for many subscribers, out of sight means out of mind.  The 2021 Consumer Email Tracker published by the UK's DMA found 46% of subscribers say they check their spam folders at least daily, and 11% say they check it at least hourly. What we don't know, however, is how...
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30 Spam Filter Words and Phrases to Avoid

30 Spam Filter Words and Phrases to Avoid

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Spam filtering has become quite sophisticated. Your email subject line isn't the only part of the email delivery equation, but rather, just one part of the whole. Emails are delivered to inboxes based on subject lines, content, and reputation. Avoiding or limiting certain spam trigger words or phrases in your subject lines or throughout your content is important for successful email deliverability. 1. $$$ 2. 100% free 3. Act Now 4. Affordable 5. Amazing stuff 6. Double your income 7. Earn $ 8. Earn extra cash 9. Eliminate debt 10. Free 11. Free gift 12. Limited time offer 13. Make $ 14. !!! 15. 100% free 16. Act now! 17. ALL CAPITALS 18. Discount 19. Double your income 20. E.x.t.r.a. Punctuation 21. FREE 22. Guarantee 23. Join millions 24. Lose weight 25. All natural 26. Bargain 27. Best price 28. Lowest price 29. T e x t w i t h g a p s 30. No purchase necessary Vertical Response has some tips that may or may not set off official spam filters, but they tend to set off human spam filters: Don’t write subject lines ALL IN CAPS. Don’t make spelling...
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